Lisa Rofel

Lisa Rofel is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her publications include Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China after Socialism (University of California Press, 1999) and Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture (Duke University Press, 2007). Her most recent work, with Sylvia Yanagisako, Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion (Duke University Press, 2019)...See more

Lisa Rofel is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her publications include Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China after Socialism (University of California Press, 1999) and Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture (Duke University Press, 2007). Her most recent work, with Sylvia Yanagisako, Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion (Duke University Press, 2019) offers an innovative approach to studying the commodity chains of transnational capitalism. See less